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Fired After Refusing to Sign a Disciplinary Write-Up

I was fired for a disagreement between myself & another employee. My boss did not witness the argument & only has hersay on what happened. He said he was writing us both up, but it wouldn't go into our files. I refused to sign the write up because disagreements occured there everyday. He was very irritated. & fired me 3 days later. He threw in that I was intimidating another employee when I was telling her how I wouldn't sign the write up. I had my unemployment appeal today & I won. When the judge asked questions all he got from my previous employer were I don't knows & I don't have specifics on what was supposedly said during both incidents. I was having a personal conversation with this girl & He had no testimony or statements from her stating I was intimidating her. I received an email from another girl the day I was fired stating she had talked to the boss & he gave her a different reason as to why I was fired. It was to "help me out" he had said. Because I didn't have a reliable daycare anymore & so I could spend time with my children. He told me I could receive my unemployment because they weren't fighting it. Little did he know that the reasons he put for my termination would make the unemployment office question it. Can I sue for this??

Re: Can I Do Anything About This

As you've been advised several times on another site, a wrongful termination is where someone is fired for a reason prohibited by law. Reasons prohibited by law include things like race, gender, religion, age (only if you're over 40), and disability. You were not fired for any of these reasons or for any other reason remotely resembling these reasons. Ergo, you have not been wrongfully terminated.

You can only sue another person/entity if that person/entity has broken the law. (This goes for small claims court, too.) Your former employer did not break any laws when firing you, ergo, you cannot sue your former employer.

Period. You don't need to ask about this again, the law doesn't change from respondent to respondent or site to site.

Re: Can I Do Anything About This

Can I sue for this??

No. Under the doctrine of at will employment, your boss can fire you because it's a day ending in Y. Unless you were fired for a legally prohibited reason (your religion, your gender), you do not have a case for wrongful dismissal.

Re: Can I Do Anything About This

No. You do not have a case in small claims or anywhere else. Not everything that is unfair has a legal remedy. It's unfortunate that this happened, but no laws were broken. File for unemployment and move on.

Re: Can I Do Anything About This

Unbelievable! How many times do we have to tell you? (I'm really starting to get why your former boss fired you.) So here goes, one more time:

As you've been advised several times on another site, a wrongful termination is where someone is fired for a reason prohibited by law. Reasons prohibited by law include things like race, gender, religion, age (only if you're over 40), and disability. You were not fired for any of these reasons or for any other reason remotely resembling these reasons. Ergo, you have not been wrongfully terminated.

You can only sue another person/entity if that person/entity has broken the law. (This goes for small claims court, too.) Your former employer did not break any laws when firing you, ergo, you cannot sue your former employer.

Period. You don't need to ask about this again, the law doesn't change from respondent to respondent or site to site.

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